Posted on 01/21/2025 1:46:02 PM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
With 2024 going down as the globe's hottest year on record, and with devastating fires in California signaling a new climate-changing normal, President Donald Trump and his administration are doing exactly the thing a warming planet doesn't need. Trump is withdrawing the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement, again.
Ten years ago, 195 countries thought it prudent to protect their populations from the increasingly deadly consequences of climate change. And that's why they joined the Paris Agreement, to work together to limit fossil-fueled global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius if possible. That warming limit was breached in 2024 for the first time ever. And yet President Trump seems willing to put Americans in harm's way again.
Harm's way is getting more harmful by the year, with worsening heat waves, droughts, floods, fires, and storms. Climate change poses a clear and present danger, as fires on the West Coast and hurricanes in the Southeast have illustrated in the past year.
The security implications, then, of backing out of the Paris Agreement are dire. Thanks to the air pollution caused in large part by fossil fuels, 7 million people around the world die early each year......
For these reasons above—including the devastating economic and diplomatic consequences that come from ignoring an international consensus, and the humanitarian consequences of tens of millions of refugees migrating from countries devastated by climate change—it would be national security negligence for the White House to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement. Over 1 billion people are expected to become climate refugees by 2050.
The less we burn, the more lives we save. It's that simple. And the Paris Agreement is the international venue to do that—to address climate-security threats before they spiral out of control, to mitigate this clear and present danger to our planet.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
Raúl Grijalva and Michael Shank - Dumbasses.
They think national security is a winning buzzword. Because Trump has successfully used it.
I could embrace coal, but oil would just slip through my fingers.
You're always going to find severe weather events that you can point to as harbingers for a theoretical global warming trend.
Fill up the reserve....now...
Article begins with a litany of lies ...
Please don’t insult dumbasses by comparing them to Raúl Grijalva and Michael Shank!!!
-10F last night....
Whose national security?
Maybe Trump should have a summit conference with Greta Thunberg. Maybe she can educate him..
Sarcasm......
They sound like little children...As if their preschool teachers told them that the sky is falling. “OMG!...Are you SERIOUS?”
Sure...
Because it’s much better to drive EVs that rely on China for the rare earth elements needed to manufacture the electric motors.
After all - the fossil fuels will run out some day but the supply of rare earth elements is infinite...
/s
fossil-fueled global warming is a complete hoax.
China and India create more pollution that we could ever hope to. Slashing our throats over “climate change” only helps China.
I think I saw where New Orleans also had a snowstorm.
When do you suppose Global Warming will kick in?
“Over 1 billion people are expected to become climate refugees by 2050.”
So in a nutshell Europe, Canada and the United States will be invaded by 1 billion people and we have to sit back and take it because we created the problem.
Nice logic.
Total crap.
Grijalva was involved with La Raza. His father was a hard-working legal immigrant from Mexico. Grijalva became a Congressman, and IMHO he should be very thankful to be in a nation in which there is so much opportunity (or at least was, until his party screwed us).
“Trump’s Embrace of Fossil Fuels Threatens National Security”
It might be true! In 75 to 100 years from now... maybe. It’ll take that long to transition to the next required infrastructure to support whatever the next latest & greatest energy’s source turns out to be.
Whatever the genius Guru soothsayers are predicting there’s one thing I’ve noticed that many have in common. They have no concept of the timeline that is probably going to dictate the implantation of their fantasies large scale.
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